Show TEN WHILES A A remarkable Imen lioB for rapid transmission athe increasing application of electricity as a agent is suggesting such appalling possibilities that it is difficult to contemplate them without trembling nevertheless tho application of the agent to practical purposes goes on every day and the world must submit to what is comingo whether it is willing or not here is a business circular from baltimore projecting an electric railroad horn new york to chicago distance miles time two hours the proposed road is an elevated double trade simply propped up with timber six by six inches these support light tracks made of rails sixteen pounds to the yard and support also an upper rail which serves as s guide and a conductor the car which is a small pointed arrangement made exclusively for carrying letters valuable fruit and other express bauff not only rests on wheels that run on the track below but is guided and held in position by a grooved wheel that rolls along tho rail overhead and this it is claimed makes ff off the track impossible even with a rate of ten miles a minute no conductor engineer fireman or brakeman is needed any more than these functionaries function aries are needed on a steel pointed bolt anred from a piece of modern rifled ordinance the car works automatically and looks out for itself when lot loose at new york it shoots through the air along its track at any desired rate of motion till it reaches a point say ten miles from st louis when the current is cut off and it moves on only with its momentum to a point near the stopping station where a trip lever applies the brakes and brings it to a halt the cost of this surprising railway is moderate enough per mue for a double track and 3 66 per mile for a single track the time between New york and boston would be twenty minutes between new york and sac louis two hours between new york and san rancis R ancis co nine hours which leaves nothing more to be desired in the way of rapid transit |